Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) Subject to this section, the Recorder shall keep or cause to be kept a register of title to land which is subject to this Act.
(2) Regulations may prescribe the manner in which the Register is to be kept.
(3) Subject to any regulation under this section the Register may be kept wholly or partly –
(a) on paper, on microfilm, or in or on such other medium as may be approved by the Recorder; or
(b) in such device for storing or processing information as may be approved by the Recorder.
(4) The Register shall comprise –
but shall not include any other maps and plans or documents deposited with the Recorder.(a) the folios of the Register;
(b) the dealings registered under this Act and any of the Acts specified in Schedule 2; and
(c) schemes under the Strata Titles Act 1998 –
(5) Each folio of the Register shall –
(a) be the record of the title to one or more parcels of land, or to an estate in one or more parcels of land being an estate of a kind referred to in subsection (6);
(b) be numbered or otherwise identified as prescribed;
(c) contain a record of such matters as the Recorder is, by or under this or any other Act, required to record on the folio; and
(d) contain such other particulars as may be prescribed.
(6) The Recorder may, if he deems it convenient to do so, create a folio of the Register for –
(a) a leasehold estate created by a lease registered under this Act;
(b) a life estate;
(c) an estate in remainder or other future estate; or
(d) an undivided share in land.
(7) Land becomes subject to this Act when the Recorder creates a folio of the Register for it.
(8) Except as may otherwise be prescribed, when the Recorder creates a folio of the Register, he shall in the prescribed manner prepare a certificate of title to the same land.
(9) A certificate of title shall be in an approved form and contain the prescribed particulars.
(10) On the lodgment of a dealing, the Recorder shall number it with a distinctive number, or letter and number.
(11) The Recorder shall register a dealing by making such recording or alteration on the folio of the Register or registered dealing to be affected thereby as, in his opinion, may be necessary to give effect to the dealing.
(12) Where land is removed from a title, the Recorder shall create a new folio of the Register for that land, and shall cancel the folio from which the land is removed, so far as it relates to that land.
(13) The Recorder may at any time, if he thinks fit, rearrange parts of the Register by creating a new folio containing the whole or part of land in one or more existing folios or in such other manner as may appear to him to be convenient.
(14) In exercising his powers under subsection (13), the Recorder –
(a) shall not create a new folio so as to permit the subdivision of land contrary to the provisions of Part 3 of the Local Government (Building and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1993; and
(b) in creating a new folio, shall distinguish the parcels comprised in the new folio which may lawfully be separately alienated immediately before the proclaimed date.
(15) Any parcels comprised in a new folio created pursuant to subsection (13) which may lawfully be separately alienated immediately before the proclaimed date may, on and after that date, be separately alienated.
(16) Where the Recorder creates a new folio of the Register pursuant to subsection (13), he shall cancel the folio of the Register from which the land comprised in the new folio is taken, so far as it relates to that land.
(17) Where the Recorder creates a new folio of the Register pursuant to subsection (12) or subsection (13), he may call in any certificate of title or grant referring to the same land and cancel it to the same extent as he has cancelled the corresponding folio of the Register.
(18) The Recorder may, upon registering a dealing, or whenever he considers it convenient to do so –
but shall retain a record of the registration of dealings which have ceased to affect the land comprised in that folio which record shall remain part of the Register.(a) create a new edition of a folio of the Register containing the subsisting recordings only;
(b) prepare a new edition of a certificate of title containing the subsisting recordings only, whether or not he has created a new edition of the relevant folio pursuant to paragraph (a); and
(c) destroy the superseded edition of a certificate of title –
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